A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd all I loved, I loved alone.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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